Example sentences for: handfuls

How can you use “handfuls” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Perhaps the best time had by all was on an outing to the Minnesota Zoo, where a gorilla was eating vast handfuls of his own bright yellow feces.

  • Around sunset, they gather and gossip on park benches, while hundreds of birds congregate on the surrounding telephone wires, cooing and calling out until, eventually, handfuls of rice, sold by the plastic baggie-full around the plaza’s perimeter, are tossed out to them.

  • with handfuls of red sand, dissolving aphid, Japanese beetle, horned tomato worm

  • China could never trump the warhead blizzard Washington would send in retaliation against any atomic attack, though the country would be loath to cede to U.S. missile defenses the deterrence afforded by its handfuls of warheads.


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